Hyperviews Online

Pubishing Hyperviews Online is a significant activity of the Online SIG. If you’re an Online SIG member, please register on Hyperviews Online. The site administrator will make you a contributor, and you can post news, articles, or both.

If you have a question you can consult with fellow members on the SIG email list (subscribe) or the STC Forum (http://stcforum.org).

Rachel Houghton is submitting a proposal for a progression to be sponsored by the Online SIG at the 2007 annual conference, May 13 to 16 2007 in Minneapolis. The program committee will review proposals and announce which have been accepted late this year.

The web team is maintaining the STC Forum (http://stcforum.org) and the STC Wiki and blog-based collaborative SIG sites: http://stc-on.org

The Online Meetings team is working on development of podcasting information.

If you would like to propose a project or volunteer please contact the SIG Manager; the email address is on the Leaders page.

Please welcome our 64 new members who joined in August. By our count the Online SIG now has 1917 members. STC has 15,202 members.

Hyperviews Online is back for August, after a partial hiatus in July to allow the Online SIG to support the ID-IA and ITC SIGs in putting their newsletters online. Work continues on web services for STC members and online meetings, and more volunteers are always welcome. (more…)

The Online SIG has gathered and posted some information about options for online meetings: an article, an STC Forum topic, and an STC Wiki project. John Posada is gathering information on how to create a podcast and we plan to publish that on the STC Wiki.

We are publishing chapter meetings in Hyperviews Online. For the first one, we have slides only. If your chapter has held a meeting you would like to have published in Hyperviews Online, or you would like to work on the Online Meetings project, please contact the Online SIG manager. Contact information is on the Leaders page.

Please welcome the 35 new and returning members who joined the Online SIG in July. We now have 1873 members and STC has 14686 members.

If you leave a comment, please post it just once. An administrator will approve your comment. This is necessary because we are experiencing spam.

If you find a post closed to comments, it was probably a target of a lot of spam. It may be a temporary post, that will be deleted when it’s obsolete. Online SIG members can always comment by sending email to the manager. The address is on the Leaders page.

The Online SIG is working on a proposal for a progression at the Technical Communication Summit, the 54th annual conference of STC to be held May 13 through 16, 2007 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

If you are planning to attend the 2007 Annual Conference and would like to participate in a progression sponsored by the Online SIG, please send the information listed below to rachelh@rhoughton.com. Rachel will submit the proposal (deadline September 1), check periodically with the presenters, and facilitate the progression at the conference. Proposals are due July 31, 2006. (more…)

Please welcome our 82 new members who joined in June. As of June 30, the Online SIG had 1844 members. This will be the official size of the SIG for the 2006 to 2007 STC year. In comparision, on June 30, 2005 the Online SIG had 1800 members. As of June 30, 2006 STC had 14,463 members.

This is a quiet time in the STC year. The annual conference is over, and preparations for the next conference are just beginning. Rachel Hougton is leading Online SIG preparations for the 2007 annual conference. We will work on a proposal for a progression or a panel, and plan face-to-face meetings with activities at the Sunday night welcome and hosts for the networking lunch tables. (more…)

Online SIG annual conference team members Saurabh Kudesia, Kathy Ramsey, and Wanda L. Worley share links they learned of at the Annual Conference. (more…)

Please welcome our 90 new members who joined the Online SIG in May. The SIG now has 1760 members, with 13,925 in STC.

by Matthew Arnold Stern

Editor’s note: Matt was an Online SIG volunteer at the STC Annual Conference, May 7 to 10, in Las Vegas. He posted entries on his blog during the conference, and provided the information to the Online SIG for our report on the conference.

Day 1: Vive Las Vegas!

If you can walk from Paris to New York and pass Monte Carlo, it must be Las Vegas. I’m here for the STC Conference that will be held at the adjoining Paris and Bally hotels.

The conference shows that the economy and technical writing field has recovered from the post-dot bomb and 9/11 gloom. The most obvious indicator: trade show swag. Once again, booths have nice pens and other toys to give away, and they’re having drawings for iPods. Also vendors are getting serious about producing tools to serve the technical writing community. Adobe is reviving RoboHelp and updating FrameMaker. MadCap is coming out with a full product line of technical writing products. Of course, there are translation services galore. (more…)

Please welcome our 113 new members who joined the Online SIG in April.

As of April 30 the Online SIG has 1671 members, with 13,370 in STC. At the beginning of the membership year (March 31, 2005), the Online SIG had 1591 members. The SIG experienced modest growth this year, and retained 65% of its members. STC retains a steady 72% of members, compared to the common benchmark of 69%.

If you haven’t renewed yet, please do today. You can renew online all through May. When you renew, please choose the Online SIG.

Message from the Online SIG Manager, April 25, 2006 

From 1994 to 2002, the Online SIG published a newsletter, Hyperviews Online. In 2005 the Online SIG resumed publishing news and information on a static website: http://stcsig.org/oi, where you will also find all the issues of Hyperviews Online through 2002.

This site brings Hyperviews Online back as a continuously updated publication, and replaces the static site. We are using the WordPress open source content management software for Hyperviews Online.

To start, we will use the default theme and its default characteristics, except for changes we can make in the administration panel without extensive editing of the PHP code. That allows us to post meaningful information quickly, and we can figure out the customizations we want to make as we go along.

You are invited to leave a comment. To prevent spam, the administrator often approves all comments so please post just once. If you are an Online SIG member you are invited to register and become a contributor. If you’d like to be a contributor, please write to the SIG manager, ann@annlwiley.com.

Because this post is receving a lot of spam, we’ll close it to comments. There is some information about workflow in the comments, that we need to append here.

A member with the “Contributor role” is a Contributor and can submit comments, write posts (that is, write and edit), and manage posts and comments. This includes viewing posts and comments from a list.

Members with the “Author role” can submit comments, write posts (that is, write and edit), and manage posts and comments. This includes viewing posts and comments from a list. An Author can publish posts, while a contributor can post drafts only. An author can also upload files.

Members with the “Editor role” can submit comments, write and edit posts and pages, and manage posts, pages, categories, and comments. This includes viewing posts and pages from a list, and editing and deleting both. An Editor can view all categories and comments in a list, create, edit, and delete categories, and moderate, edit and delete comments. An Editor can also add and manage links.

A member with the “Administrator role” can do everything that an Editor can do, and change many characteristics of the site as well. This includes changing the presentation, working with plugins, adding and modifying the permissions of users, setting options, and importing comments. (This post was updated and the comments removed May 11, 2006.)